Chapter Summaries

After revealing his identity to the women he had summoned, Zhao Fu learned more about the Mind's Eye and turned to preparing Great Qin for its founding. He opened a broad imperial examination to recruit civil and military officials, and about thirty thousand candidates reached the final palace examination.

• Zhao Fu revealed himself as the Great Qin Imperial Prince, reassured the frightened women, and formally conferred titles upon them.
• Zhao Fu asked Golden Dragon about the eye implanted in his heart, and Golden Dragon identified it as the Mind's Eye and explained its abilities and how it might disappear.
• Zhao Fu oversaw preparations to divide Great Qin into provinces, counties, towns, and villages as the Great Wall neared completion and the nation’s founding approached.
• Zhao Fu announced civil and military imperial examinations open to people of any age, race, or background, including those outside the academies and army.
• Great Qin held several rounds of selection, and roughly thirty thousand candidates advanced to the final palace examination after six days.

Zhao Fu oversaw Great Qin’s civil and martial examinations, while his ministers debated which candidates deserved recognition. After the results were decided and the top performers honored, the question of a suitable empress remained, with Nü Lü emerging as the strongest candidate.

• Zhao Fu attended the palace examination with his ministers, and they recommended civil-service candidates, including Yu Siyan, Changsun Zhu, and Bei Rou.
• Wu Zetian urged the ministers to let the examination results determine which candidates were most capable.
• The ministers reviewed the civil examination papers, while Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Wei Liao, Bai Xihan, Sun Hanxiang, and other generals oversaw the martial contests.
• On the third day, Yu Siyan placed first in the civil examination, and Liu Xiao of Ice Fire City won first place in the martial examination.
• Zhao Fu summoned and honored exceptional candidates at a banquet, then considered Nü Lü as the most suitable empress because Tuoba Qing had left.

Zhao Fu postponed choosing an empress while Great Qin prepared to found its nation. At the enthronement, Great Qin’s fortune transformed dramatically, and nine black dragons fused into a great seal.

• Ministers proposed several candidates for empress, but Zhao Fu refused to decide and ordered them not to discuss the matter again.
• More than two months later, Great Qin founded its nation, drawing the attention of the entire human world.
• Zhao Fu ascended the throne on the Heaven-Prayer Platform as Great Qin’s citizens knelt and its fortune gathered into a vast black cloud.
• Zhao Fu entered the pillar of fortune, and his bloodline, temperament, and soul underwent another transformation.
• The Great Qin Seal entered the sky’s black vortex and exploded into countless specks of light, expanding the clouds and revealing nine black dragons.
• The nine black dragons gathered at the vortex’s center and fused into a great seal.

Zhao Fu established the Great Qin Empire, gaining the status of king and a surge in power as Great Qin received blessings and nation-founding rewards. He examined the new kingdom’s attributes and prepared to use its newly unlocked official positions and legions.

• The Great Qin Seal formed, sending black light across Great Qin that healed and strengthened its citizens as the City Heart and Nation-Guarding Artifacts gained power.
• Notifications announced that Great Qin City had become a Baron Royal City and Great Qin had been established as the human world's first empire, earning a blessing and rewards.
• Zhao Fu became a true king, absorbed the Great Qin King Seal, and raised his bloodline to Level 18 Emperor Bloodline.
• Zhao Fu reviewed Great Qin Royal City's attributes and learned that future national and city upgrades depended on conquered regions rather than experience.
• Zhao Fu noted that Great Qin had received hundreds of cities, towns, and villages, and that founding the empire had unlocked official positions and legions.

The chapter explained how Great Qin’s civil and military official seals derived power from its territory and army, and described the strength of its population, forces, and cities. It then outlined the capacities and seven special effects of Great Qin’s legions.

• The chapter explained that civil official seals could strengthen Great Qin’s defense and administration but could only be used within its territory.
• Great Qin’s military officials could wield seals based on troop numbers, and its army and population determined how many seals it could support.
• The chapter listed Great Qin’s current territory, population, soldiers, cities, corpse soul forces, and wyverns.
• Great Qin’s level-five Baron Nation could establish thirteen legions, each accommodating two million soldiers.
• The chapter detailed the legions’ seven effects: enhanced attributes, morale and resistance, recovery, intimidation, defense, combined military forms, and the ability to merge legions into a greater force.

Zhao Fu reviewed the powers Great Qin gained by founding a nation, especially the strength of legions and the barriers created by national borders. Great Qin could establish thirteen legions, and Zhao Fu felt confident about the nation’s future.

• Zhao Fu learned that legions could unite soldiers’ army qi through Legion Form, enabling them to challenge City Lords and powerful monsters.
• He learned that special legions required a compatible vessel to fuse with a Legion Heart, while ordinary legions had no special abilities.
• Great Qin could establish thirteen legions with twenty-six million soldiers, enough to counter as many as two hundred and sixty City Lords.
• Zhao Fu learned that Great Qin’s national borders and Great Wall could prevent even powerful Teleportation Arrays from crossing them.
• Standing on the Heaven-Prayer Platform, Zhao Fu read the notifications and felt confident that Great Qin had become a true nation.

After restoring Great Qin, Zhao Fu appointed its ministers and began establishing its royal legions. He fused a Legion Heart with Great Qin’s City Lord Heart, summoning a powerful Black Dragon.

• Zhao Fu accepted his identity and mission as a member of the Ying Family and declared Great Qin restored.
• Zhao Fu returned to the palace and had Li Si read out appointments, titles, rewards, and official ranks for Great Qin’s ministers.
• Great Qin celebrated the appointments and founding of the empire with feasts and a palace banquet that lasted until midnight.
• Zhao Fu left the banquet and went to the City Lord Hall to establish Great Qin’s King’s Legions.
• Zhao Fu placed a Legion Heart into Great Qin’s City Lord Heart, and a Black Dragon appeared before transforming into a carved black stone stele.

Zhao Fu established four special legions by turning powerful cities and Great Qin’s Inheritance Stone into legion vessels, each with a unique form and enhanced abilities. With nine Legion Hearts remaining and the strongest capital cities already used, he considered how to find more suitable vessels.

• Zhao Fu inspected the Great Qin Imperial Army’s attributes and found that its members gained the power of a King’s Attendant, its Black Dragon form was enhanced, and its troop limit increased to five million.
• Zhao Fu fused a Legion Heart into Demon King City’s City Heart and created the Demon King Legion, whose members gained the power of a Demon King and whose limit increased by one million.
• Zhao Fu fused a Legion Heart into Peacock City’s City Heart and created the Peacock Legion, granting its members peacock power and a one-million-soldier increase.
• Zhao Fu fused a Legion Heart into Seven Killings City’s City Heart and created the Seven Killings Legion, whose members gained Seven Killings power and whose form was a blood eagle.
• Zhao Fu counted four established legions and nine remaining Legion Hearts, then considered other powerful cities as possible vessels because each Heart could be used only once.

Zhao Fu failed to use national inheritance cities as legion vessels, but established the Fireflame Legion and Icecold Legion by merging Legion Hearts with the ice and fire cities and their City Lords’ blood. With six legions now formed and no suitable special cities left, he turned to consider other possible vessels.

• Zhao Fu tested Legion Hearts in Great Shun and other national inheritance cities, but the fusions failed.
• Zhao Fu tried to merge a Legion Heart with Fireflame City, but it was rejected just before the fusion could finish.
• Binuoxiu merged her fiery blood into Fireflame City’s City Heart, allowing Zhao Fu to establish the Fireflame Legion.
• Kelahe merged her icy blood into Icecold City’s City Heart, allowing Zhao Fu to establish the Icecold Legion.
• Zhao Fu counted six established legions and considered two other kinds of objects as possible vessels, while Kelahe said she would wait for him in the imperial palace.

Zhao Fu successfully established the Tree Legion and Flower Legion by merging Legion Hearts into the World Tree and World Flower, then tried to make the Flying Dragon Nest into a legion vessel. The nest’s transformation grew increasingly powerful and opened a crack in the sky, from which a ten-colored sphere descended amid visions of countless beings.

• Zhao Fu merged a Legion Heart into the World Tree and established the Tree Legion, which granted life power and increased its soldier limit by one million.
• Zhao Fu merged another Legion Heart into the still-unbloomed World Flower and established the Flower Legion, also increasing its soldier limit by one million.
• Zhao Fu counted Great Qin’s eight legions and considered making the Corpse Soul Blood Pool or Flying Dragon Nest into another legion vessel.
• Zhao Fu merged a Legion Heart into the Flying Dragon Nest, whose power surged and forced him to use his Emperor Domain to withstand it.
• A crack opened in the sky, and a ten-colored sphere descended as visions of humans, demons, elves, dragons, and other beings appeared.

Zhao Fu created the All-Beings Legion and the Corpse Soul Legion by using Legion Hearts with Great Qin’s All-Beings Nest and Corpse Soul Blood Pool. He then used a third Legion Heart on the City of Calamity, where a new legion stele began to form.

• Zhao Fu inspected the All-Beings Legion and learned that its All-Beings Domain could dissolve and assimilate other legions’ power.
• Zhao Fu used a Legion Heart on the Corpse Soul Blood Pool, creating the Corpse Soul Legion, whose power he planned to give to the Orcs.
• Zhao Fu realized the City of Immortals, Sword Mountain, and City of Calamity could serve as vessels for the three Legion Hearts he had left.
• Zhao Fu merged a Legion Heart into the City of Calamity’s City Lord Heart, and calamity forces gathered into a stone stele.

Zhao Fu established the Calamity, Immortal, and Sword Mountain Legions, completing Great Qin’s thirteen legions. At court, Great Qin’s ministers agreed to conquer the Yue Kingdom, and Wei Liao proposed next taking the system factions surrounding Great Qin.

• Zhao Fu formed the Calamity Legion, the Immortal Legion, and the Sword Mountain Legion by fusing Legion Hearts into their cities’ City Hearts.
• After completing the thirteen legions, Zhao Fu returned to the palace and planned to discuss elevating Great Qin into a higher-level nation at morning court.
• At morning court, Great Qin’s ministers unanimously supported conquering the remaining 230 regions of the Yue Kingdom to secure Great Qin’s northern border.
• Wei Liao proposed that after conquering the Yue Kingdom, Great Qin should attack the system factions to its west, east, and south, whose alliances controlled 2,200 cities in total.

Zhao Fu approved a plan to settle Yue Kingdom’s eighty million players in territories taken from Myanmar and Laos, then waited for the other factions’ vigilance to ease. Great Qin launched a coordinated nighttime operation to capture cities, and its forces confronted a Yue Kingdom City Lord at the edge of a major city gathering.

• Zhao Fu agreed to use intimidation and provoke conflict between the Yue Kingdom’s players and the people of Myanmar and Laos rather than massacre them.
• After half a month, Zhao Fu assessed Great Qin’s growing strength and identified the Hong Pang Clan’s Nation-Guarding Artifact as the main obstacle in the Yue Kingdom.
• Zhao Fu ordered more than five thousand people to capture and relocate cities without getting caught up in fighting soldiers or residents.
• Great Qin’s forces attacked the outer cities of a Yue Kingdom faction’s gathering place, while the other City Lords failed to arrive and provide aid.
• Five City Lords asked a fat middle-aged City Lord to submit to Great Qin, then attacked him together and drove him to flee.

Great Qin launched simultaneous attacks on the Yue Kingdom and the Hong Pang Clan, killing city lords and destroying settlements as Zhao Fu led an assault on Hong Pang City. Zhao Fu’s killing of civilians triggered pain from the Zhanlu Sword’s Mind’s Eye, and the chapter ended with him knocking Xiong Jiang into a crater.

• Five Great Qin city lords killed a fat middle-aged city lord, relocated his system main city, and left its civilians and soldiers enraged.
• Ge Nie killed a sinister city lord, took his City Lord Seal, and relocated another system main city for Great Qin.
• Great Qin city lords attacked settlements across the Yue Kingdom, spreading panic as news of the invasion reached other factions.
• Zhao Fu led more than five hundred city lords to break Hong Pang City’s aerial-forbidden formation and devastate the city.
• Zhao Fu’s attack on the city lord hall killed forty or fifty thousand people, causing the Zhanlu Sword’s Mind’s Eye to inflict growing spiritual pain on him.
• Xiong Jiang charged Zhao Fu with his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade, but Zhao Fu struck him into a wide pit.

Zhao Fu fought Xiong Jiang, overcame the power of the Red Ghost Statue, and killed him, allowing Great Qin to capture Hong Pang City. As Great Qin’s assault ended, urgent alarms reported that enemies had launched coordinated attacks from several directions.

• Xiong Jiang summoned his crimson dragon fate, but Zhao Fu used the Great Qin Seal to wound him severely.
• Xiong Jiang merged with the Red Ghost Statue and clashed with Zhao Fu, and both were injured by their attacks.
• Zhao Fu killed a general who tried to help Xiong Jiang, then killed Xiong Jiang with a single sword strike.
• Zhao Fu captured the Red Ghost Statue as Great Qin’s City Lords subdued Hong Pang City, ending the northern assault.
• Great Qin received an urgent alarm that system factions and players were attacking from the east, south, and west, while Myanmar and Laos sent two large forces against it.

Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin as surrounding forces launched a coordinated invasion, and the attackers backed down into a tense standoff. He ordered defenses and diplomatic efforts while turning his attention to absorbing the Yue Kingdom and the spoils Great Qin had gained.

• Zhao Fu and Great Qin’s City Lords rushed back, forcing the forces attacking from all directions to halt before breaking through the defenses.
• Great Qin and the 240 million attackers faced off, while Great Qin continued selecting soldiers for its thirteen legions, which numbered 41 million in total.
• Zhao Fu condemned the western factions as dishonorable aggressors, then argued that Great Qin had not attacked them during the past year.
• Zhao Fu ordered the army to hold its position and told Li Si to send envoys and gifts to distant factions to win support and isolate Great Qin’s neighbors.
• Zhao Fu reviewed Great Qin’s spoils, including 300 surrendered cities, 100 million people, and 30 million Tier 1 soldiers, and prioritized absorbing the Yue Kingdom.

After Great Qin conquered Yue Kingdom, Zhao Fu used an undead catastrophe to drive the remaining Yue Kingdom people out of its territory. The Yue Kingdom Alliance led a mass migration into regions near the center of Laos, where their arrival sparked conflict with the local population.

• Yue Kingdom's remaining factions and elites pledged loyalty to Great Qin, but Zhao Fu delayed accepting them and planned to use them to lead players into neighboring nations.
• Zhao Fu unleashed undead across Yue Kingdom, causing widespread panic and convincing many people that they faced true death.
• The Yue Kingdom Alliance urged people to flee Great Qin's territory, and most former top factions and ordinary people followed it.
• The migrants used Teleportation Arrays to reach several regions near the center of Laos, which were marked as occupied by Yue Kingdom.
• Laos residents demanded that the Yue Kingdom people leave, and Laos players attacked them but failed because Yue Kingdom had more people and strength.

Great Qin’s schemes secured Yue Kingdom’s foothold in Laos while Huaxia’s factions turned their attention toward opposing Great Qin. Zhao Fu then granted titles to hundreds of Yue Kingdom women, and their phoenix aura awakened the Imperial Phoenix Statue as a Nation-Guarding Artifact.

• Great Qin’s attack on Laos stopped its factions from expelling Yue Kingdom, allowing Yue Kingdom players and city lords to settle there under Great Qin’s secret plan.
• Huaxia’s dynasties and factions united against Great Qin, while the Hundred Schools of Thought chose neutrality and resolved to support the eventual victor.
• Zhao Fu gathered more than six hundred Yue Kingdom women in the great hall and used the Great Qin Seal to approve an imperial decree granting them titles.
• The decree released an immense phoenix aura, and Golden Dragon announced that the Imperial Phoenix Statue had reached the level of a Nation-Guarding Artifact.
• Zhao Fu watched as the golden phoenix filled the sky above Great Qin and its radiance mingled with the empire’s rising black fate aura.

Zhao Fu used the phoenix aura gathered from women across Yue to strengthen Great Qin and its Imperial Phoenix Statue, then refined the Red Ghost Statue into the Qin Ghost Statue. He ended the chapter planning to secure Great Qin’s occupied Yue territories by building the Great Wall while postponing the full clearing of those regions.

• The Imperial Phoenix Statue stabilized Great Qin’s fate aura, gained Nation-Guarding Artifact-level power, and formed a golden crystal of phoenix power and fate within Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu rewarded the women who had helped gather phoenix aura and kept the women of the Hong Pang Dynasty behind, promising to spare their relatives if they followed him.
• Zhao Fu summoned ten generals and refined the Red Ghost Statue with Great Qin’s fate aura as Yue Kingdom’s natives pledged loyalty to Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu named the transformed statue the Qin Ghost Statue and placed it beside the City Heart to absorb Great Qin’s fate aura.
• Zhao Fu and the city lords decided to build the Great Wall around Yue’s 230 occupied regions, then clear those regions gradually.

Si Ji united Huaxia dynasties and foreign nations to assemble a massive alliance against Great Qin. Su Zhe urged Bai Le to hand over Flower Moon’s intelligence on Great Qin, and she hesitated over the consequences.

• Si Ji proposed combining the dynasties’ and national inheritances’ troops and City Lords, then shared letters confirming support from foreign nations including Russia, Japan, and India.
• One inheritor objected to involving foreign powers in Huaxia’s affairs, but another argued that they needed every ally to defeat Great Qin.
• People across the continent sensed an approaching storm as the alliance against Great Qin took shape.
• Su Zhe met Bai Le, his secret lover and a member of Flower Moon, and asked her for Flower Moon’s intelligence on Great Qin.
• Bai Le refused at first, but Su Zhe warned that Great Qin was about to fall and argued that Flower Moon would be targeted afterward; Bai Le hesitated because betraying Great Qin could endanger Flower Moon.